[Flexradio] Warnings with Multiband antennas on Field Day

2010-07-02 Thread Rod Lane
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[Flexradio] Warnings with Multiband antennas on Field Day

2010-07-01 Thread John Vandenberg
Here is my FD experience: Had prepared a muti-fan dipole antenna (paralled dipoles with single feedline) for 40-20-15-10-6m and tested it at home suscesfully with the F5Ka. Problems on Field Day: Since we were A4 (4 HF stations) we had other stations nearby. I experienced a lot of

Re: [Flexradio] Warnings with Multiband antennas on Field Day

2010-07-01 Thread Bill Bordy, NJ1H
Our club FD operation, N1FD, always runs many stations, only 11A this year ;^). We have switchable passive bandpass filters for each station so they can filter out all but the band they are working. That may have helped with your multi-band antenna. 73, Bill NJ1H On 7/1/2010 1:56 PM, John